List of 73 Green Party Candidates running for State Legislature

73 Green Party candidates are seeking election to state legislative offices around the nation.

Illinois is fielding the largest slate of state legislative candidates at 18, followed by Maine with 10, Michigan with 7, Arkansas & Connecticut with 6 a piece. Other states with state legislative candidates include Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia.

These candidates are on top of 69 Green Party candidates for U.S. House of Representatives, 7 candidates for U.S. Senate, and 2 candidates for Governor. There are over 200 Green Party candidates on the ballot on Nov. 4 (or Dec. 6).

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Well, there are a few reasons why Greens (and other parties in the same legal situation) in various states have to give some priority to higher-level candidacies. The most obvious one is protecting ballot status. And in Michigan (and howmany other states?), you can’t be on the ballot locally only — you must be statewide or you’re stuck in Petition City or Write-In Junction.

But there is also the rallying, uniting, and inspiring effect a larger campaign can have. And running only low-level campaigns doesn’t always give you much chance to make points about the bigger issues all “other” parties believe in, all the disagreements we have with the “big two” minority parties. (I sometimes use that phrase because I think no party has a majority of the population in its membership.)

I don’t presume it’s only Greens who believe in thinking globally while acting locally — but I know we do believe in both. And Tip O’Neill’s famous saying that “All politics is local” points both ways. . . .
And I know it’s true of Greens in particular, and I suspect it do believe

Antonio Williams, a member of the South Carolina Green Party steering committee and one of our nominees for US Congress in 2006, is running for the South Carolina State House of Representatives from District 74, running as the only competition to the incumbent Democrat.